[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/09/2014 12:12 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:15:48 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I have a schedule rule to record the news daily:
>> Schedule Options
>> Record Any Time Any Channel
>> Filters
>> This Channel
>> Duplicate Check
>> None
>> (Todays news looks like yesterday’s new: Subtitle etc)
>> If the station transmits on multiple muxes (and it usually does,
>> but not *allways*) I get two recordings.
>> Same thing happens if I’ve recorded an episode from some series.
>> As part of my trying to solve the issue I have set 1 tuner per card
>> and I can see 2 cards being used to do the recording.
>> What could I do to enforce a single recording?
>> What can I do to see debug info on how the scheduler has chosen it’s actions?
>> I’m getting zero byte recordings. If I look at the channel on
>> LiveTV it ranges from good to bad (where bad is pixellated and
>> squawky). If I scan there are multiple repeats of the channels. I
>> suspect I may have choosen a *bad set* and I should rescan and try
>> again. The logs are not very enlightning (from memory something
>> like) “Recording failed”. Any thoughts or opinions welcome.
> Set it to record daily. I picks every day the one with the highest
> priority and it than only records the second on failure. Unless
> of cause you want to record more than one every day.

James, you should really specify your listings source.  This is 
definitely good advice if your listings source treats news broadcasts as 
they're treated in North America--as generic episodes (meaning duplicate 
detection doesn't work on them).  If you're really in Samoa (guessing 
based on e-mail address)

See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching for help figuring out 
how MythTV determines what to consider as duplicate episodes.

Mike